Desert Island Dishes

This weeks castaway is Lily Simpson. Lily is the founder of The Detox Kitchen – which is a series of delicious deli’s and food deliveries. I was going to say that it’s a favourite with A listers, but it’s a favourite of anyone lucky enough to have eaten there! The food is really creative, and delicious and just great. Lily has written one best selling book – and another one is on the way next year which I know is going to be brilliant. Lily has basically built a food empire – and she’s done it on her own, off her own back and she’s just a bit of a superstar. Simply put, Lily is an inspiration and she also happens to be one of the world’s loveliest people. Now if Lily doesn’t inspire you to cracking on that thing you’ve always wanted to do – I don’t know what will! I’ve had a very productive week since seeing Lily – long may it continue! Lily kindly gave me lunch at the detox kitchen after our chat and it was so delicious – I can highly recommend. Just ask for one of everything. I love the sound of her final meal of a smorgasbord of pasta – that is right up my street! I will most definitely be joining her for that. The creamy mushroom pasta sounds heavenly and just what this time of year calls for. Lily recommends some brilliant restaurants: Nopi, Lima and Hoppers. All of which I can vouch for - they are great. Desert Island Dish: An assortment of pasta: creamy mushroom and a freash pea and mint option. Thank you for listening and see you next week. In the meantime you can find me on the internet @madebymargie on Instagram or madebymargie.co.uk for lots of recipe ideas. Bye! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie’s castaway this week is Tess Ward. Tess is a Cordon Bleu trained chef, food writer and model Tess has had a huge year career wise and it was exciting to hear all about some of the things she’s been up to including her biggest “pinch me” moment. Tess travels a lot for work and regularly eats in exciting new restaurants so it was brilliant to hear all about her recommendations and what she’s loving. Her book, the Naked diet, came out in 2015 and she’s been beavering away on a new one which sounds fab and she tells us about what we can expect from that. We made the mistake of recording this in the afternoon last Friday and I was so hungry by the end! Note to self, if I record in the afternoon – I must bring snacks. I’m definitely going to try making the grilled chilli pineapple which sounds brilliant and I also like the sound of that granola very much! Thank you so much for listening. You can find me on the internet at madebymargie.co.uk or on social media @ madebymargie Thank you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie’s castaway this week is Rosie Lovell. Rosie is a cooking superstar. She has set up not one but two fantastic delis. She’s a cookery author, a TV presenter and just generally cooks incredibly delicious things! She opened her first café at the age of just 23 which is so impressive and she just been killing it ever since basically. I love her Desert Island Dishes choices – and she lets us in on lots of her culinary secrets and some great places to eat. PLUS - we get an exclusive on how to make the perfect Portuguese custard tart – I’m winking at this point – only you cant see that because this is a podcast (if you’ve listened to this episode this joke will make sense.) For all my joking – Rosie is a fantastic cook – her food is genuinely delicious – I have eaten in her delis many times and can highly recommend popping to Peckham for a visit. I cant wait to experiment with Togarashi – sounds great and those sesame noodles sound fab, as does the pureed parsnips and that chicken dish. Generally just loads of delicious inspiration in this episode. Don;t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you don’t miss another episode and if you miss me in the meantime then come and say hi on Instagram @madebymargie - see you there! Margie x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie’s castaway this week is Alex Petrides. Alex is a seriously impressive guy – he was the first employee at Propercorn,the incredibly successful popcorn company and has now gone on to found a company with his brother, Johnathan. The company is called allplants. allplants is a plant based food delivery company which is growing quickly and going from strength to strength. I really enjoyed chatting to Alex – he’s a really natural entrepreneur. He also definitely taught me something about what it is to be a vegan because Alex is so right – being vegan has been so tied up with clean eating that its all got a bit confusing in peoples heads – well definitely in my head, as you will hear when I ask him about making vegan caramel and kind of forget how to make caramel (shocker). But I definitely got a better understanding speaking to Alex because eing vegan doesn’t mean you also have to be gluten free or sugar free or that you are completely virtuous – you can be vegan and indulge in creature comforts Also listening back to this one was weird for me as I seem to do a dirty old man laugh at one point when we talk about butter….so I’m sorry about that. How great does that birthday party he threw sound with the piadinas? They sound so good – can’t believe I haven’t heard of them before – slightly embarrassing. Also the aubergine volcano sounds intriguing and as does his avocado and marmite sandwich? It sounds so weird that it could just work – and if Alex says it does then I’m going to trust him! If you like hearing people talking about delicious things and food they love – with the occasional creepy laugh thrown in, (I mean - who doesn’t?), then don’t forget to subscribe! And as always you can find me over on Instagram @madebymargie and find out more about the podcast and different episodes over at www.desertislanddishespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie's castaway this week is Dolly Alderton. I went round to her gorgeous flat on a rainy Monday morning and we just had a really lovely chinwag. Dolly is friendly, funny and super successful but also charmingly self-deprecating. We discuss a mutual love of all things Nigella, butter, bread and the joy of having a side of carbs when you’re already having carbs. Dolly has a complicated relationship with shortbread, which we explore as well as the idea of using food to make friends. I know I am no Kirsty Young and that desert island dishes has a long way to go before we reach the starry heights of desert island discs but I’m so enjoying doing this podcast and I hope you are enjoying listening! If you are enjoying the podcast, please do leave a review and subscribe as it makes all the difference and really helps the podcast grow, which is brilliant! Come and find me on Instagram : @madebymargie and search for other episodes of the podcast at www.desertislanddishespodcast.com and tune in next week to hear another exciting episode of desert island dishes. Margie x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie’s castaway this week is Pip McCormac. Pip is the Lifestyle Director for Red Magazine, he oversees all the food and interiors content in the best-selling women's monthly title in its field. He formerly worked as the Food and Interiors Editor at Sunday Times Style and he has also created a recognisable voice for himself with his popular recipe review blog Pip Cooks The Books. He has now published 2 beautiful books all about cooking with edible flowers and growing your own herbs. I wanted to catch up with Pip and find out the inspiration for the books, all about his glamourous job and of course pick his brains about the best places to eat in London. I don’t know about you but I need to make that delicious sounding 24 hours eating extravagnza in London happen immediately – sounds so good! What are we all thinking about the unusual combination of peanut butter, tomato, cucumber and mint? There is never any judgement on this podcast and I vow to keep an open mind until I try it! Thank you for listening and until next time – you can come and find me on instagram @madebymargie and you can read about other episodes at desertislanddishespodcast .com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie's castaway this week is Milli Taylor. Milli runs a hugely successful catering company called Milli’s Catering and she just makes the most dribble inducing food – that is to say it’s delicious and she’s ridiculously talented. From large weddings and cocktail parties to hosting small supperclubs in her home, she’s happiest when bringing people together through good food. Milli has cooked for numerous celebrities, from politicians to pop-stars, and has created show stopping cakes that have appeared in Hello and Grazia magazines. Simply put - Milli knows good food, and her approach to food and cooking is full of passion and flavour. I know Milli could put anything she cooked down infront of me and it would just be delicious. Milli gave me two slices of the most insanely perfect almond and greengage tart. I think she thought I would give the second slice to my boyfriend…I didn’t. By now you know what to do listen, subscribe and leave a review– so if you haven’t already subscribed please do – and if you felt like leaving a review I would be so so grateful. I just love doing this podcast – there are so many amazing people out there like Milli – just killing it – in whatever field they are in and I am just loving getting to meet them and ask them all these questions. I’m very excited for Mill’s new book to come out and I will continue to work hard so that I could maybe persuade her to be my very own private chef. Thank you for listening! Until next time – keep thinking of what your own desert island dishes would be because you never know when I might ask you! Instagram: @madebymargiewebsite: www.desertislanddishespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie's castaway this week is Frances Quinn. Frances is the winner of the Great British Bake Off Series 4. Now, like most people in the UK and probably the world – I am fairly obsessed with the Great British Bake Off, so to meet a winner was a dream come true. Frances is ridicously talented. She sees food in a way that most just don’t and yet it just comes so naturally to her. She makes the most incredible cakes that all look almost too good to eat. Almost. So it was generally just lovely to meet Fran and have a chat about all things bake off – I wanted all the goss, as well as all the amazing things shes been up to since the show. I can't stop thinking about her bourbon brownies and she’s also inspired me to cook up some flapjacks this weekend for sure. I might even, if I’m feeling brave give those edible white chocolate candles a go! Thank you so much for listening. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review in Itunes and I will see you next time! Margie Instagram: @madebymargiewebsite: www.desertislanddishespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie’s castaway this week is Georgia Cummings. Georgia is the founder of Potage – the healthy home cooked food delivery service. Their goal is to make eating well easy and there’s an emphasis on fresh, quality ingredients. I went to the bustling kitchens of Potage to meet Georgia and she was so lovely. She is a great example of someone who has built something from the ground up with minimal funds but buckets of passion and hard work and now 5 years later she is running her own little empire and its very inspiring and impressive to see. So I looked it up and a loaded potato is very much a thing – so I definitely didn’t coin that phrase like I thought I did. More’s the pity. How great is Georgia? She’s so passionate about food and I am so impressed with how hard she worked during all university holidays and she set about getting as much experience as possible which just shows she was destined for big things. That Pret baguette holds a special place in my heart so that gets a big thumbs up from me plus I love that her dads cooked breakfast got a mention. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed it please do subscribe and if you wanted to leave a review that would be just swell. Thank you and goodbye! Instagram: @madebymargie website: www.desertislanddishespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margie's castaway this week is Giovanna Ryan. Giovanna was runner up on this years Masterchef. I am a HUGE fan of masterchef, I absolutely love it – so it was great to meet Giovanna and get some of the inside goss on behind the scenes on Masterchef. Since Masterchef Giovanna has set up a supper club and events company called Three Girls Cook with two other fellow contestants which is very cool. And it was generally just lovely to chat to her and hear all about her food filled adventurwes and her desert island dishes. I went on holiday to Spain last week to see my dad which was amazing but I came back with a cold which is very annoying. So apologies if I sound a bit bunged up, I promise I will have bounced back by next week! I don’t know about you but I am definitely going to try out a parmesan stock very soon and I cant stop thinking about that honey and Greek yogurt pannacotta with apricots – sounds so so good! Also – I cannot stop thinking about Christmas sandwiches – and that episode from Friends – one of my favourites where Ross loses it when someone steals his standwich. Anyway that is us done for another week – thank you so much for listening! Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and tell all your friends! Bye for now! Margie Instagram: @madebymargie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.